- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women Quotes
On confidence, identity and being true to yourself.
These quotes discuss women's confidence and identity from a few angles: resisting pressure to act a certain way, and the discipline shown by women serving alongside men in the military. For related reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe.
- Grips
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the creation of Black Lives Matter.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing worse than bright lighting - it isn't flattering and makes the glamorous women want to leave.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
- Film Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?
- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each other, that's a big miss. That is not true at all. At all. My women connect with each other instantly and help each other.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
- Hesitant
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- Nov 07, 2020